Mozart was only 35 when he died. Imagine how many more works he would have written had he lived to be 70! Imagine if he had been alive to hear Beethoven’s symphonies - there would have been quite a battle between them, with each one trying to outdo the other.
“Mozart was only 35 when he died. Imagine how many more works he would have written had he lived to be 70! Imagine if he had been alive to hear Beethoven’s symphonies - there would have been quite a battle between them, with each one trying to outdo the other.”
Tragic is it not? I have thought the same thing.
We were robbed by his death as he also was.
Their totally different personalities at work would have been interesting to compare like that.
As one of my teachers once explained to me, “Beethoven struggles to heaven, Mozart comes from heaven.”
Mozart never developed as a Symphonist. Only the last three were written as a coherent group. He just missed hearing Haydn’s London Symphonies by a few years and the Eroica by 14. Though I think he would have regarded Beethoven’s music as ugly.
Beethoven admired Mozart and sought him out, they met once very briefly.